Bruno Van der Linden

(IRES, UCLouvain)

will give a presentation on

Natural resources, (un)employment and working time

Optimal Method for Distributed Convex Optimization and Some Examples

Alexander Gasnikov, MPTI, Moscow

Based on the works:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.00232.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.02933.pdf
we describe optimal first-order methods for decentralized distributed convex optimization problems.
We'll also try to generalize these results to the time-varying communication graphs.

"The Rhetoric of Marketplace Morality: A Consumer Perspective"

Abstract

Melanie Meng Xue

(Northwestern University)

will give a presentation on

High-Value Work and the Rise of Women: The Cotton Revolution and Gender Equality in China

Melanie Meng Xue, Northwestern University

Dalal Moosa

(PSE)

will give a presentation on

Constrained gazelles: Understanding formal and informal MSEs in Morocco

Kevin Genna

(AMSE)

will give a presentation on

The role of Elasticity of Substitution in an endogenous growth model of structural change

Development of Intuitive Haptic Interfaces for Blind People

Presentation in PDF

Abstract:

Joanna Roczniak currently studies at AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków.

A Failure of Screening and the Rise of Manipulation

Ehud Lehrer, Tel-Aviv University

This paper offers two related insights into the problem of competitive and non-competitive screening.
The first concerns a decision maker who screens elements from a general set based on noisy unbiased assessments.
We show that stricter screening not only reduces the number of accepted elements, but possibly derogates their expected value, leading to a screening failure.